Enlarge / Certain squid have the ability to camouflage themselves by making themselves transparent and/or changing their coloration. reader comments 36 with Share this story Certain cephalopods like cuttlefish, octopuses, and squid have the ability to camouflage themselves by making themselves transparent and/or changing their coloration. Scientists would like to learn more about the precise ..
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Enlarge / Illustration of a smallpox (variola) virus. A membrane (transparent) derived from its host cell covers the virus particle. Inside this lies the core (green), which contains the particle’s DNA genetic material. The core has a biconcave shape. reader comments 66 with 0 posters participating Share this story In November 2016, virologist David Evans ..
Enlarge / A terraced rice field in Vietnam. reader comments 41 with 35 posters participating Share this story Nitrogen fertilizer is made from natural gas. Extracting and burning natural gas is harming life on our planet, so we should probably stop doing it (or at least try to cut back considerably). But food crops, like ..
Enlarge / Much of the heart is composed of muscle cells like the ones shown here. reader comments 80 with 54 posters participating Share this story Earlier this year, news broke of the first experimental xenotransplantation: A human patient with heart disease received a heart from a pig that had been genetically engineered to avoid ..
Enlarge / Cloned piglets that are engineered to be useful for organ transplants to humans. reader comments 63 with 46 posters participating Share this story Last week, when we reported on the first pig-to-human heart transplant, we complained that the commercial company behind the operation wasn’t more forthcoming about the genetic engineering that converted the ..
Enlarge / A cartoon of the process that translates the genetic code in DNA into a protein. reader comments 21 with 20 posters participating Share this story All living things on Earth use a version of the same genetic code. Every cell makes proteins using the same 20 amino acids. Ribosomes, the protein-making machinery within ..
Enlarge / On the outside, these heavily engineered bacteria look no different from their normal peers. reader comments 34 with 22 posters participating Share this story Many of the fundamental features of life don’t necessarily have to be the way they are. Chance plays a major role in evolution, and there are always alternate paths ..
Enlarge / Diagram of the structure of the virus’ spike protein. reader comments 61 with 46 posters participating Share this story When the COVID-19 pandemic was first recognized for the threat that it is, researchers scrambled to find anything that might block the virus’ spread. While vaccines have grabbed much of the attention lately, there ..
Enlarge / Colonies of genetically modified yeast. reader comments 23 with 19 posters participating Share this story A little while ago, we covered the idea of using photovoltaic materials to drive enzymatic reactions in order to produce specific chemicals. The concept is being considered mostly because doing the same reaction in a cell is often ..
Enlarge / A transgenic Aedes aegypti OX513A mosquito, created by Oxitec. reader comments 101 with 63 posters participating Share this story Six researchers are reportedly calling for the retraction of their study, which claimed that a trial of genetically modified (GM) mosquitoes went horrifically wrong and resulted in extra-dangerous, mutant blood-suckers flying rampant in a ..